"I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy."

-- Marc Andreessen

#Old School Quotes #Long Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.”
“Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.113, Penguin
“Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to healing are removed. Health is the normal state. Most chronic disease is the inevitable consequence of living a life-style that places disease-causing stressors on the human organism. Fasting gives the body an interlude without those stressors so that it can speedily repair or accomplish healing that could not otherwise occur in the feeding state.”
“We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun is. It is almost second nature to us to prefer explanations . . . with a large vocabulary. We are much more comfortable when we are assured that the sunflower turns because it is heliotropic. The trouble with that kind of talk is that it tempts us to think that we know what the sunflower is up to. But we don't. The sunflower is a mystery, just as every single thing in the universe is.”
“Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.”

Source : "8 Recipes for the Best Workout" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.
“You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 15, 2016
“I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?" He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass." Why?" He turned his head and looked at me. "Because." Because why?" Because I just do.”
“Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.”

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